Stearns Wood's Travel Bug Hotel Traditional Cache
Keystone: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.
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Stearns Wood's Travel Bug Hotel
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**WARNING*** This cache has been recently Muggled. The entire cache
was stolen along with all of it's contents and travel
bugs/trackables. Please hide it very well so it does not happen
again. Special thanks to ghs for donating a new cache.
This small wooded area located in Wyoming was graciously donated to
the City of Wyoming by the descendants of George Stearns. Mr.Stearn
was founder of the Stearns & Foster mattress company. Directly
next to you is their historic home. If you look closely you can
even see their own personal fire hydrant in the woods. Mr. Stearn's
used to walk to his Stearn's and Foster Mattress factory just a few
short miles east of here in the Village of Lockland.The Stearns
family was a very influential to the City of Wyoming. He served on
numerous boards and commissions and helped with Wyoming's first
church, library and high school. George S. Stearns and Seth Cutter
Foster met while working in Cincinnati, Ohio. The two shared a
common interest in cotton goods – Stearns had been experimenting
with cotton materials while Foster had been selling cotton goods.
Together they developed a more durable cotton batting for their
wives’ quilting, which was later found to be ideal for mattresses.
With Stearns’s engineering skills and Foster’s sales experience,
the partners opened their own small factory. The young company
began by making cotton felt for mattresses and other products,
eventually developing their own line of mattresses. And so, the
Stearns & Foster tradition of beauty and fine craftsmanship
began. They were one of the first companies to volunteer to the
Worker's Compensation Act and provided free life insurance to their
workers. During World War II they devoted 80% of their resources to
the war effort. In the late 1990's the company was sold off and
moved to Mason, Ohio. In May of 2004 a massive fire erupted in the
old 15 acre site. Over 130 firefighters from at least 27
departments battled the blaze for over 24 hours. At one time
Staerns & Fosters used more cotton than anyone in the world.
This dust plus huge holes cut in the floor to remove machinery
contributed to the massive blaze.
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